The Terminator is not a cyborg

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• Klinotaxis

  2016-06-26 21:52:40

  kill living beings
  

  Yes?
• Calica

  2016-06-26 21:58:13

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  who called the terminator a cyborg
• Odradek

  2016-06-26 22:16:37

  My dreams exceed my real life

                                  SARAH
                        A machine?  You mean, like
                        a robot?
  
                                  REESE
                        Not a robot.  Cyborg.
                        Cybernetic Organism.
• Bee

  2016-06-26 22:39:12

  IIRC he does have organic components -- at the very least, real skin -- so he is by definition a cyborg.
• Odradek

  2016-06-26 22:53:04

  My dreams exceed my real life

  I feel like the base has to be a human to count, but whatever Kyle Reese
• Tanya

  2016-06-26 23:06:58

  Pizza Dog

  Education in the Terminator future sure is bad. 
• Klinotaxis

  2016-06-26 23:34:22

  kill living beings
  

  The skin seemed more like clothing, I mean, it's nonfunctional except for looks
• Imipolex G

  2016-06-27 00:24:25

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  it's Ahnold
  
• Bee

  2016-06-27 06:09:13

  Klinotaxis said:

  The skin seemed more like clothing, I mean, it's nonfunctional except for looks

  Yeah but it's living tissue.  So, cyborg.
• Calica

  2016-06-27 06:57:11

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  oh right didn't he have to be surrounded by skin in order to be sent back in time or something like that
• Princess Alice

  2016-06-27 07:20:18

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I feel like to qualify as a cyborg you should have to have started as an organic lifeform who was later enhanced with machinery, not the other way around.
  
  I'm sure this makes me some kind of science fiction racist.
• Calica

  2016-06-27 07:34:32

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  now i want a story about an actual reverse-cyborg
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-06-27 07:46:54

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I vote we call reverse-cyborgs grobycs.
• LOAD Cherry

  2016-06-27 08:38:06

  Splat Charger Specialist

  If "Cyborg" is "cybernetic organism"

  
  

  Then a "Reverse cyborg" would be a "biological synthetic" soooo "Biosyn"?
• KilgoreTrout

  2016-06-27 10:02:59

  ^ That's better than going with the idea I was mulling over: "orgernetic" or something that used the same two words, only in the opposite order. (Now that I've typed it and read it, it sounds more like something you'd use for sex than it does a terminator. Although I suppose you could use a terminator for sex...)
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-06-27 10:38:48

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  In the Sam & Fuzzy RPG, there are actually feats for robots who want to change their robot parts to fleshy parts (as well as ones for fleshy ones to change their parts into robot parts). You still get the intrinsic bonuses of being robots/fleshy ones until you change all of your parts, at which point you effectively switch classes
• Odradek

  2016-06-27 13:01:26

  My dreams exceed my real life

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentennial_Man_(film)
• Tatterhood

  2016-06-27 15:48:52

  Calica said:

  now i want a story about an actual reverse-cyborg

  Asimov played with this idea a bunch. (Bicentennial Man being based on an Asimov novel with which it shares almost nothing other than that premise, iirc.)
  
• Klinotaxis

  2016-06-27 15:50:13

  kill living beings